Improvement in the arrangement of lapping-machines



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ARRANGEMENT OF LAPPING MACHINE.

` Patented March 20,` 1877.

witnesses V 7 3 j 4 trng N. PETERS, ?nom-mn UNITED STATES JOB BATTY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO ALBERT PATE OFFICE BATTY, OF SAME PLACE.

Specitication forming part of Letters Patent No. 185.495 dated March 20, 1877; application filed September 28,1876.

To all whom it may concm:

Be it known that I, JOB BATTY, ot' Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have nvented a new and useful Improvement in Machinery for Making Yarn; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part hereof.

My invention refers to that class of machines known in the arts as lap-machines, which receive the lap, say, of wool, from a breaking carding-engine, and, after lapping or doubling it several times in such a way as to make an even lap, deliver it to a condensing or finishing carding-engine, the operation being continuous; and the design of this invention is to deliver the lap, after doubling, into the condenser, with the fibers composing it, endwise to said condenser, to make betterthat is, more even, finer, and stronger-yarn.

My inventioi consists of the combination, with a breaker and finisher card, of a series of 'aprons and doublers, arranged substantially as described, whereby the fibers composing the lap are taken from the doffer of the breaker endwise, doubled and redoubled, and then fed to the finisher in a continuous sheet, with the fibers entering the finisher endwise, as and for the purpose set forth in the following description i In the drawings, A represents the doffer of a first card. Band C are endless slat-aprons upon the first lap-machine. D and E are endloss slat-aprons upon thesecond lap-machine. F F are the receiving or feed rolls of the second card.

The operation is as follows A carding-machine, called a breaker, is located at A. The apron B receives the lap from dofi'er A and slowly carries it forward and deposits it layer upon layer backward and forward upon the apron C. As the lap comes from the doffer A, its fibers are endwise; they consequently C then carries the lap forward and delivers it, with its fibers still sidewise, upon apron D, which, in turn, deposits it upon apron E, with its fibers pointing toward card or condenser` F. F F' are the two feed rolls of the condenser-card.

The lap and carding machines used by nielap from the breaker through two hap-machines,

and, at the same time, secure the advantage of delivering it to the receiving-card, with the fibers composing it, endwise, so that theyarn drawn from it may, through its fibers being lengthwise, be stronger. In this way I obtain a very strong and even yarn from very short fiber, and a better yan, at all times, thanwhen the fibers of. the Iap enter the second card, he it breaker or condenser, sidewise. The aprons B and D may be denoninated doublers, for' the sake of distinction.

The special construction and operation of these machines are well known to all skille in the arts in which they are used.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The c'ombination, with a breaker and finisher card, ot' a series of endless aprons and doublers, arranged substantially as described, whereby the fibers composing the lap are taken from the dofi'er of the breaker end wise, doubled and redoubled, and then fed to the finisher in a continuous sheet, with the fibers entering the finisher endwise, as and for the purpose set forth.

JOB BATTY. Witnesses:

GEORGE E. BUOKLEY, ALBERT E. ZAOHERLE. 

